On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 01:50:38AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
> >
> > Debian have a lot of Admins Tools like adduser, magicfilterconfig,
> > linuxlogoconfig, pppconfig, gpmconfig, XF86Setup, and more
> >
> > Can we collect all this tools? I propose to use the menu system for
> > this. With the need="debianconfig" option, we can collect this and write
> > a [X11|gtk|kde|ncurses|.*]tool to find and use this tools.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I'm not a developer, but as a user I think this is a very good idea. New users
> especially have a difficult time finding the correct way to configure Debian.
Ok.
I move this to debian-policy.
After same thougths I think that need="debianconfig" is to simple. We
must distinguish between console and X tools and make new 'admin'
sections, like:
Hardware
gpmconfig
magicfilterconfig
modconf
gpmconfig
Kernel- und Bootconfig
make bootdisk
liloconfig
Network
networkconfig
pppconfig
sendmailconfig
menu-system
update-menue
documentation
User and Groups
adduser
addgrp
Backups
dbackup
XFree86
XF86Config
XF86Setup
and more.
for the needs:
need="debianconfig"
need="debianconfig-X11" for X11-only Tools
need="debianconfig-text" for text only Tools
need="debianconfig-vc" for VC only Tools (ex. gpmconfig)
with description the maintainer make a small description of the tool
and with the new tag 'readmy' a documentation link (like:
(/usr/doc/lilo/liloconfig.readmy oder
/usr/doc/lilo/html/liloconfig.html)
Should we make this as a debian policy. This all only proposels
Comments?
Grisu
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